Question

When high school graduates enter college, they must learn entirely different ways of thinking and behaving in their new academic setting. This is an example of __________.

ethnocentrism

resocialization

total institution

impression management

Answer 1

Resocialization

Explanation:

• Ethnocentrism is the view that one particular ethnic group is somehow superior to all others, is the act of judging another culture based on preconceptions found in one's culture, this has nothing to do with the sentence given because the high school or college community are not ethnic groups.
• Resocialization is the process to learn and unlearn, during resocialization one's sense of social values, beliefs, and norms are re-engineered, old behaviors are removed because they are no longer of use and new ones take place. This is what's happening in the sentence given, the high schooler needs to te-engineer his behaviors to adapt to college life.
• A total institution (prisons, mental health hospitals) are places where all possible activities are regulated. They keep schedules, uniforms, isolation to protect individuals in the institution and outside of it. College does not enter in this category.
• Impression management is the process in which an individual tries to control the impressions and perceptions of other people about a person, object or event by regulating information in social interaction, this is common in merchandise and advertisement as well as politics, this is not applicable to the sentence because there's no intention to control the new alumn's impression.

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